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Peter Dinklage Cast in Hunger Games Prequel Movie, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
Peter Dinklage — best known for playing Tyrion Lannister on Game of Thrones — has been cast as Casca Highbottom, dean of the Academy, in the upcoming prequel The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes.
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Masazo Nonaka, World's Oldest Man, Dies At 113
"World's oldest man" Masazo Nonaka, who was born just two years after the Wright brothers launched humanity's first powered flight, died on Sunday aged 113, Japanese media said.
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Wright Brothers, Who? Indian Invented Aircraft, Says Union Minister
The first flying machine was invented by Indian scholar Shivkar Bapuji Talpade and not the Wright Brothers, Union Minister Satya Pal Singh insists, and he believes this must be taught in the Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT) and other engineering institutes.
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Elon Musk On Brink Of 'Wright Brothers Moment' With Reused Rocket
If the rocket Elon Musk's SpaceX expects to launch next week looks familiar, that's because it is.
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Could You Endure The World's Longest Nonstop Flight? Find Out Who's King Of The Long Haul.
As long flights go, Singapore Airlines' epic almost-19-hour, 9,534-mile journey from Newark to Singapore was once the standard-bearer against which all others were measured. But the all-business-class Flight 21 was scrubbed in 2013, some nine years after its first voyage in 2004. The airline had sold its ultra-long-range A340-500 aircraft, and no o...
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National Treasure: Plan For 'Flying Machine' Found After 36 Years
The beat-up manila envelope sat on a table in the National Archives office in Kansas City, Missouri. It had just been fetched from a limestone cave outside of town, and conservator Lauren Varga had been sent with a security escort from Maryland to bring it home.
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Japanese 111-Year-Old Becomes Oldest Man
A Japanese man born months before the Wright brothers carried out the first human flight was recognised Wednesday as the world's oldest male at the age of 111.
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Wright Brothers' Mechanic Honoured at Ohio Aviation Museum
The bike mechanic who designed and built the lightweight aluminum engine for Orville and Wilbur Wright's first powered aircraft was honoured this week with a bronze bust at an aviation museum in Ohio.
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Peter Dinklage Cast in Hunger Games Prequel Movie, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
Peter Dinklage — best known for playing Tyrion Lannister on Game of Thrones — has been cast as Casca Highbottom, dean of the Academy, in the upcoming prequel The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes.
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Masazo Nonaka, World's Oldest Man, Dies At 113
"World's oldest man" Masazo Nonaka, who was born just two years after the Wright brothers launched humanity's first powered flight, died on Sunday aged 113, Japanese media said.
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Wright Brothers, Who? Indian Invented Aircraft, Says Union Minister
The first flying machine was invented by Indian scholar Shivkar Bapuji Talpade and not the Wright Brothers, Union Minister Satya Pal Singh insists, and he believes this must be taught in the Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT) and other engineering institutes.
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Elon Musk On Brink Of 'Wright Brothers Moment' With Reused Rocket
If the rocket Elon Musk's SpaceX expects to launch next week looks familiar, that's because it is.
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Could You Endure The World's Longest Nonstop Flight? Find Out Who's King Of The Long Haul.
As long flights go, Singapore Airlines' epic almost-19-hour, 9,534-mile journey from Newark to Singapore was once the standard-bearer against which all others were measured. But the all-business-class Flight 21 was scrubbed in 2013, some nine years after its first voyage in 2004. The airline had sold its ultra-long-range A340-500 aircraft, and no o...
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National Treasure: Plan For 'Flying Machine' Found After 36 Years
The beat-up manila envelope sat on a table in the National Archives office in Kansas City, Missouri. It had just been fetched from a limestone cave outside of town, and conservator Lauren Varga had been sent with a security escort from Maryland to bring it home.
-
Japanese 111-Year-Old Becomes Oldest Man
A Japanese man born months before the Wright brothers carried out the first human flight was recognised Wednesday as the world's oldest male at the age of 111.
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Wright Brothers' Mechanic Honoured at Ohio Aviation Museum
The bike mechanic who designed and built the lightweight aluminum engine for Orville and Wilbur Wright's first powered aircraft was honoured this week with a bronze bust at an aviation museum in Ohio.
